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so I'm planning on watching each of the Avengers' respective movies leading up to The Avengers

I'm gonna go chronologically, but should I watch Captain America last... or first

I need the most optimal experience possible

Well, the movies are all over the mark chonologically.

Basically
WW2 Captain America Stuff
Incredible Hulk Opening Stuff
Iron Man
First part of Incredible Hulk (Everything up to him making it to the University)
Iron Man 2/Thor/Incredible Hulk weave in and out of each other.
Last two scenes of Incredible Hulk
Present Day Cap stuff.

The comic "Fury's Big Week" clarifies the interving of the 3 movies.

Personally I go by theme, especially leading into the Avengers

-Start with Cap, as everything sort of starts here: the super soldier program, the Stark dynasty, and the tesseract
-Then go to Iron Man and Iron Man 2, as they work well leading into each other, establish SHIELD and reminds people of the cosmic cube
-I put incredible hulk here because it leads off of Stark and I think thor goes better last
-I put Thor last as it reveals the whole Asgard technology concept, as well as directly sets up the avengers at the end with Loki and the Tesseract.

A Funny thing happened on the way to Thor's Hammer and the Consultant go before and after Thor, respectively.

Ah, I had no idea that Iron Man 2/Thor/Hulk were so intertwined. Though now I'm remembering that Tony is onboard with forming the Avengers in the post-credits scene for Hulk, but not into it throughout Iron Man 2.

Yeahhhh I'll probably follow the same order you've got there. Thor feels like it should lead into The Avengers (especially because of Loki's arc) and I like the idea of watching Cap first and then seeing super soldier come back in Incredible Hulk and Poppa Stark's legacy come back in IM2.

This is some heavy duty Avengers spoilers and speculation for Avengers 2 so don't read unless you don't care:

Spoiler:

Well Loki kills Coulson, but Clark Gregg hints that Coulson's work in the MCU isn't done quite yet.

So

I was thinking about how in the comics Vision had his brain patterns modeled after Simon Williams

well, what if they introduced Vision in Avengers 2 but had them modeled after Coulson's personality instead?

It isn't a perfect solution because he would be a superpowered robot instead of a dude in a suit but hey I would happily take it

Christ I hate myself for clicking this

I do too

Spoiler:

But I'd hate Whedon more if I hadn't. This way I'm not surprised by his BS.

Well

Spoiler:

I don't hate Whedon for killing off characters, I've watched almost everything from Buffy on and I know it's something he does a lot, and as long as there's meaning or at least emotional resonance to it then I'm fine with it

One time, I had a friend over to play a bit of Red Alert on my LAN. During the game he said he needed to go to the bathroom, so we paused it. After about 10 minutes of wondering where the hell he went, I get up and go to check on him.

One time, I had a friend over to play a bit of Red Alert on my LAN. During the game he said he needed to go to the bathroom, so we paused it. After about 10 minutes of wondering where the hell he went, I get up and go to check on him.